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Our Annual Gala Chinese New Year Banquet 2015 to celebrate the Year of the Goat is on Wednesday, 25^th February 2015. The event will be held at the Phoenix Palace Restaurant, 3-5 Glentworth Street, London NW1 5PG. The evening will begin with a champagne reception with canapés at 6.30 pm, followed by dinner at 7.15 pm.

Labour's candidate for Croydon Central, Sarah Jones explains why politics matters to her, and why she wants an NHS that's fit for her children's children.

Chinese for Labour’s Chair, Sonny Leong CBE spoke during the Labour Party Conference debate on Britain’s Global Role said Clarkson's use of the world "slope" to describe an Asian man breached the broadcasting code but did not fall foul of equality laws as creative decisions are given an exemption.

We have slowly climbed out from the longest and deepest recession since the publication of comparable data in 1955. The dominant news headlines have also returned to the pre-recession favourites – the strong rising house price trends, especially in London and the South East. Figures from the second quarter of 2014 show that the average UK house price is around £186,000, but over £400,000 in London; which represents an 11.5% annual increase for the country and a big leap of over 25% in London. Considering the average starting salary for graduates is around £20,000 and slightly more in London, it is not a surprise that there is major ‘housing affordability’ crisis in this country. The difference between the ‘haves’ and the ‘have nots’ is all about having access to property ownership; as well as having inheritance from family members who accumulated major housing wealth through price inflation.

This chronic shortage of housing is having an impact across the country. Young people and families are struggling to get on the property ladder. Those renting privately are now having to pay record sums, on average 41% of their income just to keep a roof over their heads. It’s also affecting those who want to upsize to a bigger home but are finding they can’t bridge the gap between what they own and where they want to move to. And for those who have just joined a waiting list for a social home, there are 1.7 million families already in the queue

Since the last time UK voters went to the polls, a huge shift in the landscape of British society has become clear. For a country that has long taken home ownership for granted, the number of people who are able to afford it has been falling. As a result, the number of people stuck renting from private landlords has doubled in the past decade.

Age UK has recently published its 'Housing in Later Life' report looking at some of the key issues affecting the housing choices available to all of us as we get older. This coincides with a number of important policy developments including the announcement of a new accessibility standard for all newly built homes, an increased focus on the deployment of adaptations services to help older people live independently, the Care Act 2014 placing greater emphasis on the role of housing in the delivery of health and social care, and calls for a dramatic increase in the supply of retirement housing to extend the options available to older people.